Title: Include Parent functions.php in Child Theme functions.php
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Include Parent functions.php in Child Theme functions.php

 *  [Jake Henshall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahe/)
 * (@jahe)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-parent-functionsphp-in-child-theme-functionsphp/)
 * I’m trying to include my parents themes functions.php include into my child theme
   functions.php.
 * I have a standard setup for a functions.php in my parent.
 * This is what i have in my child themes functions.php
 *     ```
       <?php
           /**
            * Base functions and definitions.
            *
            * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/theme-functions/
            *
            * @package Base
            */
   
           locate_template( array( '/vendor/autoload.php', '/functions.php' ), true, false );
       ```
   
 * the autoload.php file contains things like timber framework which works, it it
   doesn’t seem to bring in the parent functions.php
 * This is a question from 5 years ago
 * -> [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/9989/how-to-load-parent-theme-functions-php-before-child-theme](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/9989/how-to-load-parent-theme-functions-php-before-child-theme)
 * Can anyone help me out and/or has anything changed in the 5 years?
 * Any help would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks Jake.

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